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The German Impressionist painter Otto Pippel was born in Lodz, Poland, his parents immigrated to Germany.He started his art training at the art school in Strasbourg and worked as a decorator. Later he studied at the academy in Karlsruhe and the Dresden Academy. The artist also traveled to Paris to study French Impressionism.In 1909 he settled in Planegg near Munich where he had lived all his life.

Tuesday

At the turn of the century, Ernest Biéler was practising two styles of painting at once and, consequently, pursuing virtually two careers: one closer to his heart, tending toward Realism, and the other based on status-seeking within the Symbolist movement. Ernest Biéler's Realism was based on love for his country... In the 1890s, Modernism meant rejecting Realism in favour of a more spiritual art which, at its most colourful and decorative, became Art Nouveau. Ernest Biéler resisted Internationalism and Symbolism, which gradually disappeared from his painting. But he remained ambivalent about them for years. Torn between the two painting styles ... he ended up practising both. His contemporaries .. asked him whether he was an idealist or a realist. "An artist can aspire to be both," Ernest Biéler replied. "One does not exclude the other. ..National sentiment is not irrelevant to art."
It is worth noting that Ernest Biéler's idealism was profoundly influenced by what he called "decoration", the term used by Mauris Denis in 1890 in his Theories.

(André Biéler: at the crossroads of Canadian painting
By David Karel)

Portrait of Nathalie Biéler, artist's sister, 1885

Although the artist traveled widely, he remained bound to the village of Savièse in the canton of Valais and often portrayed scenes from peasant life with a remarkable level of detail. Bieler also produced stained-glass windows for churches and Federal Building in Berne, and created the ceiling of the Municipal Theatre in Berne.

Sunday

Demeter Gui (b.1949 in Romania) studied arts, drawing and sculpting in Carei and in Cluj. The artist's marble altars can be found in Catholic churches in Transylvania. He moved in Hungary in 2002.
check out Autumn Paintings by Gui Demeter